"Everyone in the world says that you, Li Qiming, is the biggest supporter of Yuan Gongbao's claim to be emperor. Now it seems that Qiming's ambition is quite good!" Duan Qirui mocked coldly.

"Duan Duan re-created the republic. What was the result? When President Yuan was here, the country was at least unified, and localities still respected the central government. Now, is it that warlords are separating Prime Minister Duan very clear about his heart."

"You are so embarrassed to say that others are warlords. I think the country belongs to your Northeast, which is the largest warlord?"

"Aren't you the same? The leader of the Anhui warlord. If I say I am a warlord, I think the whole Chinese people support it, because our guns are pointing at the great powers, and the people under my rule are the richest in the country."

"You keep saying that the result of democracy and freedom is to disband the parliament!"

"What China needs now is unity, and to concentrate all manpower, material resources and financial resources to do major tasks, so that the Chinese nation can rise up among the nations of the world. A few people must obey the will of the majority, the majority must obey the will of the party, and the parties must obey the will of the leaders. I think there is no such thing as high-cost and low-efficiency, but it must be divided into when, at least now, the Chinese parliament is unnecessary." Li Changgeng stood up from the dragon throne with a stubborn expression and waved his arms. If later generations saw Li Changgeng's expression and words of speech, it would not be difficult to know the source of his fascist remarks.

Xu Shichang waved his hand, "Don't argue with both of you. I don't think Qiming came to Beijing to quarrel with the Prime Minister."

Li Changgeng walked off the dragon seat and patted the golden dragon pillar in the hall. "This seat is just sitting. I hope no one in China wants to sit in this seat in the future. President, I am here to represent the Northeast Autonomous Government to discuss two things with the central government, one is the Mongolian matter, and the other is the Northeast government trusts the concessions and tariffs of the great powers in China. I wonder what the President thinks about these two things?" Li Changgeng was speaking, but his eyes were staring at Duan Qirui. After all, he is the real person in the Beiyang government now, and Xu Shichang's presidential power is very limited.

Before Xu Shichang could answer, Duan Qirui spoke first: "After these two things, we will discuss them for a while. China sent more than 100,000 civilians to France during World War I. These people are now trapped in Russia. Our Beiyang government wants to send troops to protect overseas Chinese."

"Prime Minister Duan, I wonder how many soldiers your Anhui clan intends to send to protect overseas Chinese?"

"According to the plan of the Army Department, at least 70,000 overseas Chinese protection troops will be sent."

"I don't know how to transport troops and replenish the logistics? It seems that we should discuss the first two things I have raised before, and discuss the issue of protecting overseas Chinese. What about the President's views?"

"Everything is important, do you need to talk about it? It's all a major event for the people of the country and the people."

"Hmph!" Duan Qirui did not really want to protect overseas Chinese. The reason why he did not have a good attitude towards Li Changgeng today was that he was scratching his head. According to the telegram sent by Xu Shuzheng from Mongolia, the Mongolian tribes had turned to the Northeast Autonomous Government. If the central government could send troops to the Far East at this time, it would also be under pressure on the Mongolian tribes.

Li Changgeng naturally understood what Duan Qirui was thinking about sending troops to the Far East at this time. He argued that "the Chinese went to Europe to participate in the war, but they had to go back thousands of miles. The Prime Minister was embarrassed to propose to protect the overseas Chinese."

"Let's talk about Mongolia first. I wonder if the President is happy to sit on my airship? Is Premier Duan worried?"

"Hmph, Duan is still afraid that you, Li Qiming, will not be able to do bad intentions!"

"Hahaha, please!"

The three of them walked onto the airship, and Li Changgeng suggested going around the sky.

As the airship slowly rose, Li Changgeng introduced: "This is the Kunpeng A type intercontinental airship developed by Heilongjiang. It is fully hard-pending. The thruster is powered by four Oriental A type 210 horsepower aircraft engines. The boat is 163 meters long, 19 meters in diameter, 33,480 cubic meters, and 96 kilometers in speed. The pod is 16 tons when hydrogen is 16 tons, and the helium is 12 tons. It can carry 12 crew members and five flight attendants. It takes 8-10 days from Beijing to Paris! Because the production cost of this airship is too high, it cannot be popularized for civil use. Therefore, the Heilongjiang government advocates the construction of airship production and research and development enterprises for technological innovation in the name of official procurement."

While speaking, the airship had risen above the Hall of Supreme Harmony. Li Changgeng looked down from the sightseeing window and said, "Let's talk start with Wu Guang's view of this Beijing city."

Duan Qirui was born in an artillery and was not a man of airships. He was effective in the Beiyang Army with positive balloons. But the less Mosheng, the more he could understand the difficulty of designing and producing airships. He asked: "Is this airship really designed and manufactured by the Chinese?"

"Haha, Premier Duan is wise. Any advanced technology is based on the accumulation of predecessors. Heilongjiang has only been developing for a few years. It is not that it cannot build airships, but that it is impossible to build such a large airship. The prototype of the Kunpeng A airship is the German Zeppelin L38."

"How could the Germans give you such advanced things?"

"There is nothing impossible, it's just a transaction. The German Emperor secretly gave me a medal. No need to worry, it's just a business. I used sulfonamide production patents and industrial production processes, and exchanged with the Germans a factory with an annual output of 50,000 tons of electrolytic aluminum and a complete set of production drawings for several types of engines. The airship production drawings and technology are just piggyback."

Duan Qirui was stunned after hearing this, "As far as I know, you sold sulfonamide drugs at the same price as gold. Are you not afraid of losing money when trading with such profitable things?"

"As a loss? How could it be? It's a big advantage! Premier Duan, the Spanish flu, hasn't counted how many people died, but the deaths must be much more than those who died on the battlefield in World War I. Compared with life, gold is much more expensive and lighter, and the special effects of sulfonamide on influenza are obvious to all.

But when the flu passes, the market demand for sulfonamide will not be so urgent. Its status will shift from special drugs to popular drugs. The United States, Britain, France and Germany are all working very hard in medicine and can develop drugs similar to sulfonamide in two or three years. By then, sulfonamide will not have its current status. So we, Heilongjiang, have made very much money without using sulfonamide, and have traded directly with various countries."

"You mean you used the sulfonamide patent to directly change factories with various countries?"

"Yes, according to the analysis of the Heilongjiang Bureau of Statistics, the direct loss of Heilongjiang in the exchange of sulfa patents is at least 30 million taels of silver, and the indirect loss is even hundreds of millions of silver! But in the long run, the technology and factories we exchanged have increased Heilongjiang's industry for at least 20 years. This is not a change in quantity, but a change in qualitatively. Take engines as an example. It takes at least 20 to 30 years for us Chinese to develop and produce such airship engines. This technology is the German's special ability and he will never sell it for no matter how much it costs.

Not to mention other technologies, there are more than 100 downstream industries driven by the engine itself, involving nearly a thousand supporting machine tools. It can be said that the metallurgy, forging, and precision processing in Heilongjiang instantly upgraded to the world's first-class level. The indirect economic benefits it has far exceeded the sulfonamide production patents paid. Electrolytic aluminum is the pride of the metallurgical industry and the bones of the aviation industry. The number of workers required by the two technologies of the engine and electrolytic aluminum will exceed 100,000. This number will be greatly improved in the next few years!"

(Watch Chang'e-3 landing on the moon, it's updated late, please forgive me!)
Chapter completed!